The scam first appears as a message in a Facebook group, promising nude videos of a female celebrity. Possible choices include Jessica Alba, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lawrence.
That's tempting, perhaps, but the accompanying text is anything but promising: “found it on youtube... if you are on mobile you need to install Google PDF viewer from play store to watch this video. OMG it's really you.” If your Facebook friend actually talk like this, consider finding new friends.
Cyren, a security firm based in McLean, Virginia, discovered this scam and wrote about it on the company’s blog.
Your first clue that the message isn’t legit (or your second or third, depending on how dismissive you are of poor grammar and obviously fake celebrity nude photos) should be the attached file. The file is a PDF, even though it includes an MP4 in the description just to mislead people. PDFs are, obviously, not video files.
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That's tempting, perhaps, but the accompanying text is anything but promising: “found it on youtube... if you are on mobile you need to install Google PDF viewer from play store to watch this video. OMG it's really you.” If your Facebook friend actually talk like this, consider finding new friends.
Cyren, a security firm based in McLean, Virginia, discovered this scam and wrote about it on the company’s blog.
Your first clue that the message isn’t legit (or your second or third, depending on how dismissive you are of poor grammar and obviously fake celebrity nude photos) should be the attached file. The file is a PDF, even though it includes an MP4 in the description just to mislead people. PDFs are, obviously, not video files.
Beware of This Nude Celebrity Photo Facebook Scam
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